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Obligate | restricted to a single mode of behavior or environmental condition (Morris 1992). |
Oblique | Neither perpendicular nor horizontal. A slanting direction; not direct. |
Oblique angle | An angle that is less than 90¦. |
Obsidian | A glassy igneous rock with a chemical composition equivalent to that of granite. |
Ocean basin | A low part of the lithosphere lying between continental masses. The rocks of an ocean basin are mostly basalt with a veneer of oceanic sediment. |
Ocean tide | Periodic rise and fall of the ocean level induced by gravitational attraction between the earth and moon in combination with earth rotation. |
Oceanic crust | The type of crust that underlies the ocean basins. It is generally less than 8 km thick, composed predominantly of basalt and gabbro. Its density is about 3.0 g/cm3. The velocities of compressional seismic waves traveling through it exceed 6.2 km/sec. Compare with continental crust. |
Oceanic ridge | A continuous ridge, or broad, fractured topographic swell, that extends through the central part of the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans. It is several hundred kilometers wide, and its elevation above the ocean floor is 600 m or more. The ridge marks a divergent plate boundary where new oceanic lithosphere is being formed. |
Oceanic trench | Narrow, deep depression in the seafloor representing the line of subduction of an oceanic lithospheric plate beneath the margin of a continental lithospheric plate; often associated with an island arc. |
Oil reservoir | Porous rock that can contain oil. |
Oil shale | Shale that is rich in hydrocarbon derivatives, In the United States, a significant oil shale is the Green River Formation, in the Rocky Mountain region. |
Oil trap | Impermeable rocks or structures that block the flow of oil and force it to accumulate into larger bodies. |
Olivine | An important silicate mineral with magnesium and iron [(Mg,Fe)2S04] |
Omnivorous | Eating any sort of food, esp. both animal and vegetable food (Guralnik 1970) |
Oolite | A limestone consisting largely of spherical grains of calcium carbonate in concentric spherical layers. |
Oolith | A small round accretionary grain of calcium carbonate, 0.25mm to2.0 mm in diameter. |
Ooze (marine geology) | Marine sediment consisting of more than 30% shell fragments of microscopic organisms. |
opercle | The large posterior bone of the gill cover. |
Opercular chamber | The closed cavity which covers the internal gills of the frog embryo, opening to the outside through a spiracle (Peters 1964). |
opercular flap | As in the sunfishes, a fleshy extension from the opercle. |
Ophiolite | A sequence of rocks characterized by ultramafic rocks at the base and (in ascending order) gabbro, sheeted dikes, pillow lavas, and deep-sea sediments. The typical sequence of rocks constituting the oceanic crust. We see ophiolites when they have been abducted onto the edge of continental crust. |
Ore | A natural combination of minerals from which economically important amounts of a metal or metals can be obtained. |
Ore deposit | A mass of rock containing metal (or some other commodity like diamonds) of sufficient abundance to be extracted at a profit. |
Organic | Designating any chemical compound containing carbon. Of or derived from living organisms. |
Organic sediment | A sediment deposited through biological means and rich in hydrocarbons, such as coal. |
origin of fins | The most anterior part of each fin at its base. |
Orogenesis | Mountain formation, as caused by volcanism, subduction, plate divergence, folding, or the movement of fault blocks. |
Orogenic | Pertaining to deformation of a continental margin to the extent that a mountain range is formed. |
Orogenic belt | A mountain belt. |
Orogeny | A major episode of mountain building. |
Oscillation | To vary regularly from high to low values, such as a light wave. |
Osmeterium | A Y-shaped gland located behind the head of some caterpillars which can be pushed out to emit a chemical disagreeable to potential predators. |
Ossified skull | Bony skull. |
Osteoderm | A bony deposit in the form of a plate or scale found in the dermal layers of the skin (Peters 1964). |
Outcrop | An exposure of bedrock. |
Outlet glacier | A tongue-like stream of ice, resembling a valley glacier, that forms where a continental glacier encounters a mountain system and is forced to move through a mountain pass in large streams. |
Outwash | Stratified sediment washed out from a glacier by meltwater streams and deposited in front of the end moraine. |
Outwash plain | The area beyond the margins of a glacier where meltwater deposits sand, gravel, and mud washed out from the glacier. |
Overland flow | A condition in which precipitation rate is faster than infiltration rate, and excess water runs over the surface of land. |
Overturned fold | A fold in which at least one limb has been rotated through an angle greater than 90 degrees. |
Oviparous | Laying eggs that develop and hatch outside the maternal body (Morris 1992). |
Oviposit | To lay eggs. The process of laying eggs is called oviposition. |
Ovulation | the discharge of an ovum from a vesicular follicle of the ovary; this usually occurs on the 14th day after the first day of the last menstrual period (Morris 1992). |
Oxbow lake | A lake formed in the channel of an abandoned river meander. |
Oxidation | 1. Chemical combination of oxygen with another substance. 2. Decrease in the number of electrons in a compound via reaction with another compound (an oxidizing agent or oxidant). |
Oxide | A mineral compound characterized by the linkage of oxygen with one or more metallic elements, such a spinel, MgAl2O4. |
Ozone layer | The layer of ozone (O3) in the stratosphere that absorbs much ultraviolet radiation. |


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Josh Hamilton sits, waits restlessly — (Photo: Matthew Emmons, USA TODAY Sports) — 1:14AM EST December 5. 2012 - NASHVILLE — We know that he's here, but no one has seen him. — We know teams are interested, but no one is talking about him. — Josh Hamilton is easily the biggest prize …
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Rays wrap Day 2 by acquiring Escobar from Marlins — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Everybody attending the Winter Meetings at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel is convinced that the Rays will trade one of their coveted starting pitchers. — But they did not do so on Tuesday, instead sending Minor League …
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Pirates acquire versatile pitcher Oliver from Tigers — Bucs send catching prospect Cabrera to Detroit for Minors left-hander — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Pirates got into the Winter Meetings trade action in a "Minor" way on Wednesday, acquiring left-hander Andrew Oliver from Detroit in exchange for catcher Ramon Cabrera.
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O's bring back McLouth, out of running for Swisher — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Orioles made their first move of the Winter Meetings on Wednesday, securing a one-year, $2 million deal to bring back outfielder Nate McLouth, pending the completion of a physical.
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This is my kind of screw up. Please dear lord let that happen to me…screw the TV, a SIG716 is going to be a whole lot more fun in the long run:
Yahoo Tech reports on a Washington DC resident who ordered a $400 TV on Amazon and instead received a .308 SIG 716 rifle worth $2,200.
Some people have wondered if the gun was actually an air rifle or airsoft clone of the SIG 716. I think it is probably the real deal. Most companies outsource their warehousing and shipping to fulfilment houses. This kind of error was almost certainly made by the fulfilment house, not the TV merchant, not Amazon and not the gun store. In theory a rifle should be kept in a secure part of the fulfilment house. What must have happened is that this rifle got mixed up in another companies inventory outside the secure storage, either accidentally or on purpose (disgruntled employee?).


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I guess I'm confused.
Someone is allowed to openly bash gay folks, but I'm the bad guy because I decide not to purchase their product because I disagree...
Sure he has an opinion, but Orson also sits on the board and donates money to a multimillion dollar fund/lobby group that attempts to control/shape legal measures against homosexuality for which he is a public spokesperson of.
He's the face of "I fuck my wife".
It's all really bush league, but Card is putting a little too much effort in for my liking, but really no more than your average priest in a pulpit screaming about the wages of sin.
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The Giacomo Variations is a chamber opera play written by Michael Sturminger. The music concept is by Martin Haselb÷ck and based on opera scenes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. This is a story about the late Giacomo Casanova (John Malkovich), who, in the face of his approaching death, is still trying to find out, what he was living for, if not only to be coveted and desired by the woman he loves.
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All mountain stick choice.
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Background: I have been riding for 6 years, the laast 2 seriously, logging 35 days last season and 22 so far this one. Currently on a Ride COntrol 155 / B.Cartel (2005) bindings. weight 143lbs/65kg/5.10 / Regular. Mostly on Powder backcountry, woods, fast groomers for carving, the occasional kicker. I narrowed it down to: *Arbor A-Frame (The look and the reviews on this board are just amazing, It just looks a bit delicate.) *Arbor Element (same as above) *NS Raptor (Great looks and very close to what I'm looking for) *Premier F1-R *LibTech Skunk Ape 157 *Burton SMX *Burton T6 (way too expensive, but beautiful) * Head Ak (I.CT tech) Fire up your opinions! Reviews, suggestions...we all love to talk and read about this stuff... Thanks! |
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If you had the money the T6 could have been the machine for you. I have this board and it rips. just no jibbing. I would probably go with either of the Neversummer boards from the choices you have laid out.
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Your board selections and riding type closely mirrors mine. I was in the market for a new board as well. I ended up going with the Atomic Banger. Just seemed like too good of a deal to pass up.
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It is a good deal...How long have you been riding and how do you like that Banger?
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C056077 Only this text in English is authoritative ACT OF MILITARY SURRENDER 1. We the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command all forces on land, sea, and in the air who are at this date under German control. 2. The German High Command will at once issue orders to all German military, naval and air authorities and to all forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European time on S May and to remain in the positions occupied at that time. No ship, vessel, or aircraft is to be scuttled, or any damage done to their hull, machinery or equipment. 3. The German High Command will at once issue to the appropriate commanders, and ensure the carrying out of any further orders issued by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and by the Soviet High Command. 4. This act of military surrender is without prejudice to, and will be superseded by any general instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of the United Nations and applicable to GERMANY and the German armed forces as a whole. -1 - C056078 5. In the event of the German High Command or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and the Soviet High Command will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate. Signed at Rheims at 0241 on the 7th day of May, 1945. France On behalf of the German High Command. Jodl IN THE PRESENCE OF On behalf of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force. W. B. Smith F Sevez Major General, French Army - 2 - (Witness) On behalf of the Soviet High Command. Sousloparov. | ||


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Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya and Das, Moumita and Dasgupta, Chandan and Ramaswamy, Sriram and Sood, AK (2004) Spatiotemporal Rheochaos in Nematic Hydrodynamics. In: Physical Review Letters, 92 (5). 055501/1-4.
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Motivated by recent observations of rheochaos in sheared wormlike micelles, we study the coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for the hydrodynamic velocity and order-parameter fields in a sheared nematogenic fluid. In a suitable parameter range, we find irregular, dynamic shear banding and establish by decisive numerical tests that the chaos we observe in the model is spatiotemporal in nature.
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Articles on Animation 30 Jun 2009 07:30 am
Terry TV
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- I can remember somewhat clearly the show on CBS television, Wednesday nights at 7;30 pm, 1956. Dick Van Dyke (a relatively new-on-the-scene comic/dancer whose face was already familiar to the young me) appearing in a cramped living room set talking with Terrytoon characters on B&W TV.
CBS Cartoon Theatre – It wasn't something worth rushing to see, but for a cartoon crazed youth who maneuvered the television set to anything approaching animation, it would certainly do. They screened a lot of late-thirties/early-forties shorts. Li'l Roquefort and Sourpuss, the Terry Bears and Gandy Goose were the stars of these animated "gems." Mind you this was before The Mighty Mouse Show (pre-Ralph Bakshi and John K version) on Saturday morning. This was Terry trying to do what Disney had done at ABC on Wednesday nights at 7:30.
You can watch the opening of an episode of this show here.
Sorry, it wasn't good enough, and the show disappeared quickly. It ended up only a Summer replacement.
here's a NYTimes announcement of the upcoming program.
(Click any image to enlarge to read.)
Here's a more elaborate NYTimes article from 1941 about Terry's barnyard stable of characters:
And here's an article from the Times in the waning years of the Terrytoon studio, 1961
5 Responses to "Terry TV"
on 30 Jun 2009 at 8:15 pm 1.B. Baker said …
Michael, where did Terrytoons record their musical scores? Did they have a scoring stage in their New Rochelle buliding?
on 01 Jul 2009 at 1:40 am 2.Charles Brubaker said …
Reading that last article, I wonder what Bob Kuwahara (credited as a director for "Lariat Sam") actually did.
on 01 Jul 2009 at 9:10 am 3.Michael said …
Charles, Bob Kuwahara started at Disney in 1932 up to the War when he served in a Japanese internment camp. He moved to NY and worked at Terrytoons from 1950 to 1965. He directed and wrote the Hashimot-san series, as well as episodes of Deputy Dawg and Astro-nut.
B.Baker, I believe Phil Scheib recorded his scores at studios in NY. I know he used Western Electric in the 30′s and Sound One in the very last years. I assume he must have done the same for the rest of the years.
on 01 Jul 2009 at 7:50 pm 4.B. Baker said …
Thanks, Michael. I've always liked the Phil Scheib scores for the Terry shorts — though I know I may be in the minority, there — and I'm fond of the overall way the pictures sound from the late 'thirties on.
on 02 Jul 2009 at 8:00 am 5.Michael said …
The sound of this studio's work was so unique. I loved it as a kid and think back fondly on it now.


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Here's another "Pokemon X and Y" update for fans of the popular Game Freak and Nintendo video game. Pokemon released more information about the "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition including its rules and regulations.
According to the official and updated Pokemon Web site, the "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition will be separated into two divisions (Junior division and Masters division) based on the participants' birth dates.
"Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition Divisions:
1. Junior division - for "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition players born on or after Jan. 1, 1998.
2. Masters division - for "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition players born on or before Dec. 31, 1997.
2 Ways to Receive "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition Invitation:
1. Must have participated and placed in the rankings in the 2013 Global Showdown Wi-Fi Competition (for Pokemon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2) that was held in July 2013. Just log in to the "Pokemon X and Pokemon Y" Pokemon Global Link (PGL) Web site and this message should appear: "You've Qualified for the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y Beta Competition."
2. Apply for an additional participant spot. If application is granted, then expect a pop-up notification after logging in to the Pokemon Global Link (PGL) Web site on or after Feb. 14, 2014 at 11 a.m. PST.
"Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition Rules and Regulations:
1. Pokemon Level: All Pokemon Levels will be set to Level 30 during the battles.
2. Battle Format: Double Battle
3. Eligible Pokemon: Pokemon with Pokedex numbers from 1-718
4. Exceptions: Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Xerneas, Yveltal, or Zygarde cannot be used!
5. Participants cannot use Pokemon from Poke Transporter.
6. Participants may get a penalty or may get banned for doing certain things during the "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition competition including any disrespectful behaviour towards other players, using fake or false information upon registry, hacking and other inappropriate actions. These will be at the discretion of the organizers of the said online competition.
7. Organizers will not be held responsible for damage or accidents during the test competition.
8. Will not follow the Play! Pokémon Championship format.
9. Limited number of battles per day (Only 20 battles per day). Once limit is reached, player cannot participate in any more battles for the day. If limit isn't reached for the day, the unused battles will be rolled over to the following day. The battle count for each new day will be reset at midnight UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
10. Maximum of 60 battles for the entire duration of the online test competition which will last for three days.
11. Other limitations based on the participants' location and time of day.
Serebii.net also released some information about the Pokemon Battle Competitions. Check it out below:
1. Region: International
2. Pre-Registration Period: July 19 - 25, 2013 (Requirement: Entry into Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 Global Showdown WiFi Competition)
3. Registration Period: Jan. 31, 2014
4. Battle Period: Feb. 21 - 24, 2014
5. There will be a survey about the pros and cons of the new rules and regulations after the test competition.
6. There will be penalties for disconnecting. If you disconnect now from a battle, you will have a loss recorded.
And that's the latest information about the "Pokemon X and Y" Beta Competition including its rules and regulations. Stay tuned for more updates about it as well as other Pokemon news in the coming days.
Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Beta Competition to Kick Off in Mid-February (Click HERE)
Pokemon X And Y More Battle Competition Info; Maintenance For Pokemon Global Link Set (Click HERE)
Check out the Special Pokemon Valentines Pics with Messages for Loved Ones on Valentine's Day 2014 Including Pikachu and Espurr (Click HERE)


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Television flashed the first news of the automobile accident that took the life of Diana, princess of Wales, on Aug. 31, 1997. The BBC replaced regular programming with round-the-clock coverage. Six billion viewers in 44 countries watched the funeral in London on September 6 through BBC and Independent Television (ITV) News, the only two networks allowed inside Westminster Abbey. Both were forbidden to shoot close-ups of the royal family. A week later Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was interred in Calcutta amid the pomp of a state funeral that was televised live internationally.A month to the day after her death, Mother Teresa's life was dramatized on International Family Entertainment (IFE) Inc.'s Family Channel cable network. Completed months before her death, the TV movie Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor was written by French journalist and author Dominique Lapierre. The British handover of Hong Kong to China on June 30/July 1 was widely reported live. The BBC covered everything from the departure from Government House of Gov. Chris Patten to the lowering of the U.K.'s flag and the raising of China's, as well as Patten's departure with Prince Charles aboard the royal yacht Britannia. With six highly competitive broadcasting networks and more than 30 viable national cable networks, the 98 million American homes with TV sets had a wide variety of programming from which to choose--and they were promised even more. Dozens of small cable networks looked for space on cable systems, and, perhaps more important, two aggressive entrepreneurs laid plans for what might become the seventh and eight broadcast networks. Fox Network co-founder and Home Shopping Network chairman Barry Diller bought some of the assets of Universal Television, including its television production operations and two established cable networks--USA and the Sci-Fi Channel. The production operations could help Diller create a TV network that combined some national programming with a heavy dose of local programs. Meanwhile, Paxson Communications Corp. chairman Lowell ("Bud") Paxson revamped his earlier plans for an infomercial-style network and set his sights on launching his own "family values" network, to debut in fall 1998. The big three broadcasters--ABC, CBS, and NBC--watched their shares of TV viewership in prime time continue to erode from the competition provided by the other broadcast networks and the proliferating cable networks. (A rating is the percentage of the TV households tuned to a show. The share is the percentage of households with sets in use during that time period that were watching it.) For the end of the 1996-97 season, which extended from September through May, the big three's combined share dropped to just 49%. The other three broadcast networks--Fox, UPN, and Time Warner Inc.'s the WB--attracted 21%. That left 30% for the Public Broadcasting Service and cable networks like Nickelodeon, TNT, and ESPN. Unlike the big broadcast networks, which reached nearly all TV homes, cable networks covered only 66% through more than 11,000 local cable systems. NBC won in the 1996-97 TV season ratings, again on the strength of its powerhouse Thursday night, which was anchored by "Seinfeld" and framed by "Friends" and "ER." Jerry Seinfeld's decision to leave the airwaves at the end of the 1997-98 season, however, left NBC scrambling for replacement programming. CBS narrowly beat out ABC for second place with the Sunday-night help of such strong performers as "Cosby" and "Touched by an Angel," a drama whose religious theme effectively counterprogrammed the more sensationalistic fare elsewhere. In the fall ABC was hoping the return of "The Wonderful World of Disney" and well-received comedies like "Dharma & Greg" would boost it out of third place. NBC and HBO were the big winners at the Emmy awards ceremonies in September. NBC won 24 statues, despite what proved to be a virtual shutout for its "ER," the year's most nominated show. The acclaimed medical drama received only 3 technical Emmys. HBO was second with 19 trophies, including 5 for its TV movie Miss Evers' Boys. Although HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" had garnered 16 nominations, a record for a sitcom, it failed to claim a single award. NBC's "Frasier" won for best comedy series for the fourth year in a row, whereas the surprise winner for best drama was the network's "Law & Order," a perennial runner-up to ABC's "NYPD Blue." In the comedy category NBC claimed best actor (John Lithgow, "3rd Rock from the Sun") and best actress (Helen Hunt, "Mad About You"), whereas ABC could claim best actor in a drama (Dennis Franz, "NYPD Blue") and Fox could boast best actress in a drama (Gillian Anderson, "The X-Files"). Arguably the highest-profile cable channel to be launched in 1997 was CBS's Eye on People, which debuted March 31 with 14 original programs and about two million subscribers. In the year's other big cable programming news, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and his partner at Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc., Haim Saban, paid $1.9 billion for the Rev. Pat Robertson's Family Channel. The goal was to fill the channel with kid shows and compete with Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and the Disney Channel. Women figured prominently in some of the high-profile programming stories of 1997. Hollywood's worst-kept secret became official on the evening of April 30 when the character played by comedian Ellen DeGeneres on the ABC sitcom "Ellen" admitted she was gay. The episode earned a 23.4 rating and a 35 share, according to Nielsen Media Research. In September talk show queen Oprah Winfrey made happy men of Roger and Michael King, the brothers whose King World Productions, Inc., distributed her syndicated TV show (a program distributed directly to stations rather than via a network). On September 15 she announced that she had renewed her contract for two more years. News programming began to make its way into prime-time TV in numbers too big to ignore. "Dateline," the NBC news magazine, increased its frequency to four times a week. CBS wooed departing "Today Show" cohost Bryant Gumbel to the network to anchor his own newsmagazine, "Public Eye," and ABC's "20/20" could have been rechristened "40/40" as it added a second weekly airing. The reason for the proliferation was that such shows usually generated strong ratings while costing far less than entertainment offerings. ABC News started the year on a downbeat in January when a federal jury in North Carolina ordered it to pay $5.5 million to the Food Lion supermarket chain. A month earlier the same jury had found that ABC had committed fraud and trespass in securing its information for an investigative report on meat-handling practices. What troubled many journalists was that the accuracy of the story was not challenged. Although a district court judge eventually reduced the fine to $315,000, the "terrible precedent" remained, as one news producer put it. Fox Network, which celebrated its 10th anniversary during the year, played host to its first Super Bowl, including what may have been the world's longest pregame show (5 hours 18 minutes). The show gave the network its best-ever ratings, with a 43.3 rating and a 65 share. Each 30-second advertisement in the game cost more than $1.2 million. Fox may have had the Super Bowl, but it was a Tiger that gave broadcasters one of their biggest sports stories. Generating record ratings for his record-setting win at the Masters golf tournament, Tiger Woods gave a boost to the Professional Golfers' Association tour and to golf on TV. Women also reached a new milepost in television sports. NBC became the first broadcast network to provide weekly coverage of a professional women's sports league when it inaugurated coverage June 21 with a women's professional basketball game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the New York Liberty. In November NBC and Turner Sports (a unit of Time Warner) retained the TV rights to the National Basketball Association for four more years. They had to pay $2.6 billion, however, more than double what they had been paying under their previous contracts. With a glance at the upper lefthand corner of their TV screens, viewers in the U.S. could quickly gauge whether a program was suitable for their families. Under pressure from the government and children's advocacy groups, most broadcast and cable networks in January began labeling their shows with a ratings system based on the familiar movie-ratings system. For example, instead of an R rating, TV programs with the most explicit sex or violence would carry a TV-MA (mature audience) rating. Advocates of ratings were still unhappy, however. They kept the heat on, and in October broadcasters and cable programmers modified the ratings to include specific content warnings. Thus, the TV-MA rating might also include one or more of the letters S for sex, V for violence, and L for inappropriate language. Insisting that the ratings violated their First Amendment rights and despite threats from the government, NBC stood alone among major networks in refusing to go along with the content ratings. In other developments, after five years of self-imposed exile in Europe, Li Nam-ok, the 31-year-old "adopted" daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, made her first television appearance in London before CNN World Affairs correspondent Ralph Begleiter. Li confirmed that she fled Pyongyang in 1992 when "Papa" cut off the food supply to the household after being angered by the drunken behaviour of son Kim Jong Nam. A BBC documentary uncovered Swiss national bank documents showing "intent to deceive" over coins stamped with prewar dates to disguise their origins. The coins were reportedly produced from gold stolen from Jews, including gold teeth and possessions of Nazi concentration camp victims. Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Party, and Ulster Unionists, Northern Ireland's main Protestant British party, held their first live TV debate. They were represented, respectively, by Martin McGuinness, a former commander of the IRA, who rejected a Parliament seat won in May because it required an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II; and Ken Maginnis, a retired British army major who had sat in Parliament since 1983. A Brazilian soap opera "Xica da Silva" continued winning viewers for TV Manchete, Brazil's third largest network. Walter Avancini, the director of "Xica," was credited with having raised Manchete's ratings by using sex, violence, and history. "Xica" star Taís Araújo's nudity onscreen three days after her 18th birthday created an uproar because the scenes were apparently taped while she was still a minor, which violated an existing ban. France's most controversial TV anchorman, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, or PPDA, as he was better known, promoted his book "Lettre ouverte aux violeurs de vie privée," in which he accused colleagues of succumbing to an "Anglo-Saxon disease"--gutter journalism. Islamic Taliban police in Afghanistan arrested the European Union's Emma Bonino, commissioner for humanitarian affairs, and 18 of her companions, including aid workers, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, and other journalists. The police had been "enraged by the presence of news cameras" in a women's hospital in Kabul. Taliban policy forbids photography of a woman by an unrelated man. Bonino and her delegation were released unharmed after three hours. BBC's 24-hour news service, "News 24," initially planned for digital TV, was launched November 9 on cable. Because the service was free, News Corp.'s British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) Group PLC, Britain's biggest pay-TV company, which ran "Sky News," a similar 24-hour news service, complained to the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, especially after cable companies made plans to drop "Sky News" for "News 24." Embattled Pres. Alberto Fujimori of Peru took over Lima TV channel Frecuencia Latina on July 13 after it reported that government security agents were tapping phones. Hours later, station owner Baruch Ivcher, an Israeli-born businessman, was stripped of his Peruvian citizenship. Since foreigners could not own local media, pro-government minority shareholders Samuel and Mendel Winter took over the channel. Television stations in 60 countries linked up on October 19, World Food Day, for the first TeleFood global telecast based on the theme "Food for All." Organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with Italian broadcasting company RAI International, the show ran for 8 hours on RAI and was relayed via the RAI International satellite. Central European Media Enterprises Ltd., controlled by former U.S. ambassador to Austria Ronald S. Lauder, claimed that Hungary's National Radio and Television Commission gave broadcast licenses to lower bidders. They included CLT-Ufa, Europe's biggest broadcasting group, and a media consortium consisting of Scandinavian Broadcasting System and MTM Communications, the largest TV production company in Hungary. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. agreed to trade satellite assets (including a valuable orbital slot he controlled with MCI) for a nonvoting minority stake in Primestar, a cable-controlled satellite broadcaster in which Time Warner owned 31%. Primestar cable partners MediaOne, Comcast, and Cox approved of the deal because it made News Corp. an ally instead of a competitor. Compagnie Générale des Eaux SA sold control of its cable TV unit to Canal Plus SA, Europe's biggest pay-TV company. Canal Plus thus raised its stake in Compagnie Générale des Videocommunication to 76% from 20%. Générale des Eaux maintained a 15% interest. Pierre Lescure, chief executive of Canal Plus, in March bought troubled Amsterdam-based digital pay-TV NetHold for $1.2 billion. His challenge was to turn around NetHold's Telepiu channel in Italy, which lost $190 million in 1996. Canal Plus also faced new competition at home from AB Sat and Television Pay Service. Britain's most successful and popular association football (soccer) club, Manchester United, on September 30 announced the fall 1998 launch of a channel with BSkyB and Granada. This reinforced BSkyB's broadcast of Britain's major soccer matches. Flemish socialist MP Louis Vanvelthoven dealt a blow against tobacco advertising and promotions in Belgium. Although tobacco ads on TV had been forbidden there for 20 years, Vanvelthoven's new initiative ended tobacco sponsorship of sports, many of which were telecast. The European Association of Advertising Agencies urged international channels to create a reliable database similar to those used by many national broadcasters. Pan-European channels did little audience research except for the European Media and Marketing Survey, which showed that apart from Eurosport, international European channels like European Business News, NBC Super Channel, Euronews, and MTV Europe lost some of their audience in 1997. In November William Kennard took over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the first African-American to do so. Kennard, who had been the regulatory agency's top lawyer, was expected to continue the policies of his predecessor, Reed Hundt, pushing for specific public-interest obligations that broadcasters had to meet in exchange for their TV and radio licenses. In this regard, Hundt's legacy was a requirement that TV stations air three hours of educational children's programming each week. The requirement went into effect on September 1. The German alliance of Kirch Group, Bertelsmann AG, and Deutsche Telekom AG allowed existing pay-TV channels--analog Premiere and digital DF-1--to broadcast cable digital programming beginning in October. Since digital compression provided for more channels than analog, broadcasters in Britain--among them Cable & Wireless Communications, British Digital Broadcasting, and Flextech, a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Tele-Communications Inc.--were expected to begin using this new technology. Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc., bought a 10% stake in PerfecTV Corp., Japan's first digital satellite broadcasting venture, developed by Itochu Corp., Nissho Iwai Corp., Mitsui and Co., and Sumitomo Corp. Murdoch persuaded Sony Corp. and Fuji Television Network to invest in Japan Sky Broadcasting (JSkyB) Co. Ltd. Hughes Electronics Corp. hoped to develop an antenna and decoder system that would work with all three digital satellite services to shore up DirecTV, Hughes's consortium with Matsushita Electric and Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. All three companies had to compete with the semipublic Japan Broadcasting Corp., which operated the world's only high-definition television (HDTV) service, the advanced analog format offering the wide-screen pictures, rich colours, and movielike detail that many once believed would become the worldwide standard. The FCC in April opened a new era in TV broadcasting in the U.S., tentatively awarding each of the nation's nearly 1,600 TV stations in the country a second channel for digital broadcasting. Most broadcasters planned to use the channel for HDTV, but some, notably the ABC and Fox networks, were also interested in using their extra channels for multicasting--that is, the broadcasting of several channels of standard-definition TV, wide-screen pictures with resolution little better than that of conventional television. By late fall most broadcasters said they would broadcast HDTV during some parts of the day and multicast during others. In any event, consumers were reminded that there was no need to throw out their conventional analog TV sets or to rush to buy digital TVs, which were expected to cost several thousand dollars when they reached retail stores in 1998. The government ruled that TV stations could keep their analog channels and continue broadcasting their existing services until 85% of homes in their markets had digital receivers. Most industry observers believed that this decision delayed the digital-only date by at least a decade. Australia's major media group Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd. became an entrant to the Internet. It teamed up with Microsoft Corp. to form Nine MSN to provide on-line news, sports, entertainment, and weather shows, as well as financial and retail services. Interactive TV, the next generation of television sets, was launched in 1997 by H. Thomas Telesis. It acquired 6.8 million subscribers in the U.S., 10 million in Japan, and 21 million in Western Europe, using direct-to-home television broadcast via satellite. It also reached Malaysia, the Middle East, and Latin America. New markets being targeted included the Philippines, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, and India. Just before the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, radio shows in Hong Kong gave mainland Chinese a taste of freedom of speech and other democratic ways by giving them a chance to say things they never could on government-run radio at home. From these Chinese callers, people in Hong Kong gained insights into life on the mainland. Radio Television Hong Kong considered itself editorially independent and wanted to remain so under the "high degree of autonomy" China had promised Hong Kong. Vietnam announced it would step up internal vigilance and increase domestic propaganda to counter broadcast plans by U.S. radio station Radio Free Asia. A commentary in the Communist Party's Nhan Dan newspaper described the U.S.-funded station as "an assault tool of the hostile forces." In June consumer electronics leaders Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic (Matsushita), Sanyo, and JVC announced agreements with WorldSpace, headquartered in Washington, D.C., to develop and mass-produce a new generation of portable radios capable of receiving broadcast programs directly from satellites. WorldSpace was founded in 1990 to provide direct satellite delivery of digital audio communications services to the emerging markets of the world. In the U.S. it was the year of Thomas Hicks in radio. The Dallas investor went on a radio station shopping spree and by November owned or had agreed to buy 418 stations, more than any other radio operator in the nation. Hicks's binge was part of a rapid consolidation of the radio industry that began in 1996 after the government effectively eliminated most radio ownership limits. At midyear Broadcasting & Cable magazine found that 13% of the nation's 10,273 commercial radio stations were in the hands of the 25 largest station groups. The consolidation of the industry did not escape the notice of government regulators concerned not so much with how many stations a company owned nationwide but how many it owned in a single market. In November the Justice Department filed suit in federal court to block a deal that would have given a Hicks-owned company control of four stations serving New York's Long Island, which together accounted for 65% of the advertising revenue in the market. Driving all the buying and selling was the healthy advertising market, a reflection of the strong overall U.S. economy. According to the Radio Advertising Bureau, August was the 60th straight month of increased advertising sales. Sales for the month were 12% greater than in August 1996. Although it may have seemed to some that the U.S. marched to a rock beat, radio studies continued to find that country music was the most prevalent and popular radio format. According to Simons Research, some 43 million Americans 18 years or older tuned in to country each week. The runners-up were adult contemporary (36 million weekly listeners) and news/talk (31 million). The average American in 1997 listened to radio each week for 3 hours 24 minutes on weekdays and 5 hours 51 minutes on weekends, according to SRI Radio. Despite the rise of the Internet, more than two million people throughout the world in 1997 continued to communicate over the air as amateur radio operators. Most of these hams--nearly 700,000, by the FCC's count--were in the U.S. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) reported that it started off the year with 175,000 members, the most in its 83-year history. Hams used their radios mostly for personal communications, but on occasion they were called on to provide emergency communications, as was the case in 1997 with the flooding in the western U.S., and to provide backup communications, as they did for the New York City Marathon. The hams also provided educational opportunities. In the fall NASA scheduled amateur communications between schools and astronaut and ham David Wolf aboard the troubled Mir space station. Despite the number of enthusiasts and their well-documented good work, hams in the U.S. fought a seemingly never-ending battle to preserve the radio frequencies they used. In 1997 the threat came primarily from proposed low-Earth-orbiting satellites. In addition to guarding spectrum in Washington, the ARRL also successfully worked to water down a bill in Congress that would have restricted the use of scanners and affected the manufacture of amateur radio equipment. See also Business and Industry Review: Advertising; Telecommunications; Performing Arts: Motion Pictures; Music. This article updates broadcasting. The death of Diana, princess of Wales (see OBITUARIES), in a high-speed car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, generated more press coverage than any other news event in the 20th century. In the month following the accident, 35% of British news stories were devoted to Diana. In contrast, the biggest events of World War II, including the final defeat of Nazi Germany, earned only 27%. Photojournalists worldwide were attacked in the backlash of public outrage against the paparazzi who had given chase to the car and were thought to bear responsibility for the accident. Amid talk of legislative curbs, British newspapers called for self-restraint and self-regulation. They also agreed to respect the privacy of the young princes, at least until they reached the age of 18. The British newspaper industry continued to consolidate, with larger chains buying smaller ones rather than individual newspapers. This trend accelerated, spurred by the need to cut costs in order to offset higher paper expenses and reduced advertising. Mirror Group, publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror and owner of other publishing and broadcasting interests, in July acquired Midland Independent Newspapers. Conrad Black, head of Hollinger International, Inc., had in 1996 taken control of half the daily newspapers in Canada when he bought out the Southam family chain. Across Canada the Southam's 32 papers, which included the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, the Calgary (Alta.) Herald, the Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, and the Montreal Gazette, shifted content, style, appearance, and editorial point of view. The Ottawa Citizen, the flagship paper, which had been owned by the Southam family for 100 years, had offered light and local stories in a traditionally liberal city. The new Citizen featured long analytic articles, international news, extensive parliamentary coverage, an expanded editorial section, and a deeply conservative editorial board. Journalists in Latin America were concerned with staying alive. In the last nine years, more than 170 journalists had been assassinated in the region. In Argentina José Luis Cabézas, a photographer for Noticias, was gunned down after taking the first known photograph of a businessman who had been accused of being a mafia chief but also had close ties to Pres. Carlos Menem. Ten months later high-tech telephone traces revealed 100 calls between the businessman and the minister of justice, who was forced to resign. Cabézas's killing was widely seen as an attack on a free press--an attack on journalists trying to expose public corruption. The publisher of Noticias, Hector D'Amico, stated, "People stop me in the street constantly with stories they are afraid to bring to police or a judge. We're being asked to do the job of investigators. And it's not a small group of people who are afraid. It's everyone." Mexico was one of the most dangerous nations in 1997; three journalists were killed, four kidnapped, 20 physically attacked, and three threatened with death. Russian Telegraph, first published in September, became the 14th daily newspaper in Moscow. Owned by Vladimir Potanin's Uneximbank, Russia's most powerful financial group, which already had a large stake in Komsomolskaya pravda and Izvestia, the new paper aimed to be respectable, be conservative, provide strong business coverage, and, according to its young editor, Leonid Zlotin, offer "no reports of mafia shoot-outs." Russia's best-selling newspaper remained Argumentiy i faktiy ("Arguments and Facts"). The weekly, which had become prominent during the glasnost era, continued its straightforward style with short, factual articles, interviews, and advice columns. Its circulation of 3.1 million was almost three times that of its nearest competitor. Journalists in Hong Kong reported that whereas there had been no overt crackdown on the press since the British colony reverted to China in July, there had developed self-censorship, a concern that accurate reporting on China would bring forth reprisals. For example, the mass-circulation newspaper Apple Daily, which had been critical of China, was denied accreditation to cover news from mainland China. The paper was also not allowed to cover a reception organized by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which was held in Hong Kong in September. A. Lin Neumann, Asia program coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists, reported deep concern about self-censorship in Hong Kong, noting its place as "the principal safe haven for professional, independent Chinese-language reporting about the internal political and economic affairs of the People's Republic." In the United States 1997 was a good year to own a newspaper. Advertising revenues showed great gains--by October classified ads had gained 12.5% over 1996, retail ads were up 5.7%, and national ads had gained 14.2%. Share prices of newspaper stocks also took part in the "irrational exuberance" of the U.S. stock market climb. The bull market generated a windfall of financial services ads. In 1996 mutual funds and brokerages spent a record $255.4 million to advertise in the country's 50 biggest markets, a record many expected to be broken in 1997. In addition to the booming economy, newspapers themselves added such efficiencies as clustering their markets, developing niche publications, and building networks to make national advertising easier. The cost of newsprint, which had been expected to rise, instead dropped from $700 a ton in 1996 to $500 a ton. Even the anticipated postal increases were delayed until 1998. Although circulation remained stagnant or dropped off to a small extent, this was often offset by increases in the prices of newspapers. In some instances the papers themselves chose to stop distributing in outlying areas. Day in and day out, sports stories remained the most popular news events. Among the trends that became more explicit in 1997 was the propensity of media moguls to purchase baseball teams. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corp., declared that sports, more than anything else, attracted subscribers. In Great Britain sports routinely constituted 23% of news coverage. The New York Times made itself over in 1997. No longer the "Old Gray Lady," the newspaper moved to full-colour production in September. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, chairman and chief executive of the New York Times Co., retired in October, passing the leadership of the company to his son Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., already the publisher of the paper. The elder Sulzberger stated that his biggest news decision came in 1971 when he decided to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War. That resulted in the Supreme Court's ruling that upheld a newspaper's right to publish free of a government's prior restraint. The Wall Street Journal began publication of a WSJ Special Edition in German. The weekly edition appeared in Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin newspaper. Published in 11 languages, The Wall Street Journal by 1997 was being sold in 28 countries. The New York Daily News, then under the leadership of Pete Hamill, created an immigration desk in order to cover the city's various ethnic groups. The industry trend toward immigrant coverage was an attempt to gain new readers for mainstream papers and also to provide papers with access to news stories in different communities. Still ethnic in any language, the Forward marked its 100th anniversary during the year. Begun as a Yiddish daily that could speak to the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in their own language about life in the U.S., the Forward by 1997 had become a weekly published in three separate editions in three languages--Yiddish, directed toward its original audience; Russian, for more recent immigrants; and English. With few independent papers standing alone, the industry trend of larger chains' buying smaller chains continued. Knight-Ridder, Inc., purchased the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, and two smaller papers from the Disney Co. for $1,650,000,000. Second in size only to the Gannett chain, Knight-Ridder moved against the trend toward diversification into other media. It had sold its broadcast units in 1989 and its share in a cable system in 1996 and planned to sell its on-line information services. The strategy of clustering groups of papers to generate more revenue was exemplified by Conrad Black's expansion in the Chicago area. With the addition of the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, Black owned the Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Southtown, Star Newspapers, and the Pioneer Press chain of weeklies for a total of at least 68 papers in the metropolitan area. While ever-fewer U.S. cities offered more than one daily newspaper, San Juan, P.R., grew to a six-daily city. During the year each of the three existing papers expanded to launch a new morning paper. The San Juan Star, the only English-language daily, launched a Spanish version; El Nuevo Dia offered Primera Hora; and El Vocero produced El Nuevo Mundo. In a lawsuit brought by U.S. freelance writers that challenged the practice of newspaper and magazine publishers' reproducing their articles in electronic databases and on CD-ROMs without the writers' permission or additional payment, a U.S. District Court judge ruled against the authors. The judge noted that "copyright law may not have kept pace with today's technology" and that congressional legislation might be necessary. A similar case involving the Canadian Copyright Act was filed by writers in Canada but at the year's end had not been decided. Construction began in Bloomfield, Mo., of a museum for Stars and Stripes, the nation's paper for those in military service. The paper was first published in 1861 by Union troops during the U.S. Civil War. It was revived during World War I, was reborn in World War II, and since then had been published continuously. The World Trade Organization in January 1997 ruled that Canada could not try to ban American magazines by imposing an 80% tax on split-run editions, those in which U.S. titles are reprinted in Canada with a few pages of Canadian content added in order to attract Canadian advertising. Canadian publishers had argued that the U.S. titles were a form of dumping--selling foreign products at less than their actual cost--since the costs of production had been covered in the American market. An appeal panel in July again turned down the tax and also overturned a postal rate subsidy for Canadian magazines. Almost half the magazines circulated in Canada and some 80% of those on newsstands were American, and the Canadian government's efforts to protect its own industry were viewed by some as protecting the cultural sector from Americanization. And, as the Globe and Mail reported, "For Canadians, culture is a nation-building exercise. In the United States, it is simply an enormous industry." Cultural differences showed up in a different way in Great Britain. Even as the American magazine Wired won a National Magazine award for general excellence, the British edition ceased publication. Such British computer magazines as Loaded, .net, Internet, and Stuff thrived by offering practical, factual consumer information. Wired's revolutionary rhetoric and its brand of pop futurism did not set well with the British, who mostly wanted to know how the new technology worked. The Guardian noted that "U.S.-style digital elitism was out of place in a very different British magazine culture." Founded in 1947, the German magazine Der Spiegel marked its 50th year of publication. (SeeSidebar.) Brazil introduced Brazil Raca, the country's first magazine directed toward people of colour. Its first run of 250,000 copies sold out in two days. Articles focused on such topics as mixed marriages and job discrimination along with profiles of successful black Brazilians. The World Wide Web offered an ever-growing number of newspapers and magazines on-line. While many of the sites were free to all, some charged for information or, in some cases, offered only brief teasers, with most of their content protected by firewalls. The leading U.S. newspapers, with the exception of the Wall Street Journal, charged nothing. The Journal set two tiers of fees for access, depending on whether one already subscribed to the print edition. Britain's The Economist allowed subscribers to access back editions, using codes on its mailing labels. The Medline database, which offered medical articles from around the world, announced that its information would be shared freely with all. How long the idea of free flow of information across the Web would prevail remained a question. The American magazine industry seemed to offer something for everyone in 1997. Capitalizing on the interest in sports, three new entries for women were launched. Time-Warner published two trial issues of Sports Illustrated Women/Sport, the first in April. Copies were sent to all the women's names on the subscription list of Sports Illustrated. The new magazine, like its counterpart for men, was tailored to the young adult who was more likely to be a spectator than a participant in sports. Jump, launched by Weider Publications in August, was designed to appeal to teenage girls. Sports for Women, introduced by Condé Nast in September, was directed toward the sports participant or sports-minded woman of any age. Old favourites expanded in foreign editions to new markets. Overseas editions of Cosmopolitan appeared for the first time in Italy, Turkey, Russia, Hong Kong, and Japan. With 33 Cosmopolitan editions, the Hearst Corp. expected that international profits would account for 50% of the magazine's earnings within a few years, double the current 25%. Condé Nast Traveler started a British edition, titled Traveller, in October. Reader's Digest during the year published 48 overseas editions in 19 languages; they were sold to 27 million readers, nearly double the magazine's 15 million U.S. readers. In one major change the magazine began selling space on its back cover in an effort to increase advertising sales. Nowhere was change more evident than at the National Geographic Society. Beginning in 1888, National Geographic published long, leisurely articles that might take months or even years to develop. By 1997, however, "having the commitment to wait 21 days for a gorilla to take a bath" had given way to more and shorter articles. The society became a for-profit organization and began exploring other media, including full-length feature films, cable and television broadcasting, and CD-ROMs. Highly specialized niche magazines continued to grow. No matter what one's interest might be, it seemed almost certain that there was a magazine devoted to it, especially in such fields as health and computers. (See COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Sidebar.) The global book market continued its process of consolidation in 1997. A notable deal involved Pearson PLC, which bought Putnam Berkley for $336 million from MCA, the media group controlled by Seagram, and thereby made Pearson's Penguin subsidiary the second largest English-language trade-book publisher in the world. Reed Elsevier was particularly intent upon restructuring with a view to specializing in a limited number of markets. To this end it bought Tolley Publishing from Thomson Corp. at the end of January and promptly followed this up by selling to Random House for approximately $20 million the trade-book division of Reed Books, which included such long-established imprints as William Heinemann, Secker & Warburg, and Methuen. On a somewhat smaller scale, in April the leading Swiss art and architecture publisher BirkhŠuser acquired a substantial stake in Princeton Architectural Press of the U.S.; Penguin bought the Victor Gollancz children's list from Cassell; and the German publishers Econ and List and Südwest Verlag GmbH agreed to merge. The annual output of new titles and reprints in Great Britain exceeded 100,000 for the first time. This was accompanied, predictably, by a sharp increase in returns as well as reports of widespread financial difficulties among publishers. There were further repercussions from the European Union Directive that in January 1996 had extended the duration of copyrights to the life of the author plus 70 years. Under Britain's Duration of Copyrights and Rights in Performances Regulations, for example, publishers could do anything with copyrighted works as long as they served notice and paid reasonable royalties to the authors. In March Penguin announced that it had agreed to pay substantial royalties to deceased authors' estates, but Oxford University Press and Wordsworth claimed to be exempt from payment of royalties on works for which they had "existing arrangements" before January 1996. The multimedia scene remained confused, and there were no signs of European collaboration to compete with the U.S. In Britain multimedia CD prices were falling, and many publishers were leaving the business, but those that remained were publishing more titles as booksellers became more receptive. Restructuring was evident elsewhere in Europe. In Germany, Bertelsmann closed down B Electronic Publishing at the end of 1996 after only six months in existence, and in May 1997 the Holtzbrinck group acquired from Burda a majority stake in the loss-making German CD-ROM publisher Navigo Multimedia. The intention was to merge it with Systhema. Publishers in France encountered difficult trading conditions for the third consecutive year. According to the French Publishers' Association, unit sales had not declined but the average price had fallen, which indicated that the public was willing to wait for cheap editions to appear before buying. In May, Maxi-Livres/Profrance, a publisher, distributor, and bargain bookseller previously thought of as highly successful, collapsed suddenly. In contrast, Hachette Livre prospered after acquiring strategic minority interests in Anne Carriere, Michel Lafon/Ramsay, and Mille et Une Nuits. Worldwide exports of English-language texts, especially those in the educational field, continued to be buoyant and were likely to remain so because information systems and computers normally use English. (See Spotlight: English-Language Imperialism.) European publishers were, nevertheless, trying to break into new markets. For the first time in China, Bertelsmann acquired a 49% stake in a publishing joint venture with Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers and launched a book club. A fire at the Calcutta Book Fair in February destroyed hundreds of stands set up by small Bengali publishers who normally did half their annual business there. Few of them were insured. Janet Dailey, author of 93 romance novels that had sold 200 million copies in 98 countries and 19 languages, shocked her fans in August when she admitted to having plagiarized the work of Nora Roberts, also a best-selling romance writer. In May a reader noticed the similarities between two of the authors' novels and posted her findings electronically on America Online, where Roberts saw them. When confronted, Dailey admitted guilt and added that she had purloined prose from two other Roberts novels as well. Roberts announced her intention to sue Dailey for copyright infringement, adding that any money she won would be donated to Literacy Volunteers of America. She claimed to have discovered plagiarized passages in six of Dailey's novels. Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative writer, also had his professional behaviour called into question when it was revealed late in the year that some of the documents he was planning to use in his book The Dark Side of Camelot, scheduled to be released shortly thereafter, were fake. The documents contained alleged proof that U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy had annulled a first marriage, had contact with Mafia mobster Sam Giancana, and agreed to bribe actress Marilyn Monroe to be quiet about their purported affair. ABC-TV's newsmagazine "20/20" revealed that some of the documents were forgeries. Hersh claimed that he knew this and had decided not to use them, a statement some questioned, since he had already been given $2 million for the rights to develop a documentary based on the material. Little, Brown, the publisher, proceeded with the November publication, minus the questionable passages. HarperCollins came in for its share of criticism when it announced in June that it was canceling 106 books that it had planned to publish, 36 of which were ready for publication and had been featured in the fall catalog. Anthea Disney, HarperCollins president, said the decision was not a financial one but based on her need to "refocus" the company. HarperCollins had a poor financial year, with earnings for fiscal 1997 down 60% as of March. The authors of the canceled books were not required to return their advances and would be paid in full for those that were outstanding. In September HarperCollins' parent organization, News Corp., announced that HarperCollins and the corporation's U.S. magazine and on-line publishing divisions would be combined into the News America Publishing Group. The year was also notable for the "Oprah effect." Television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey began an on-air Book Club on her successful show. (See Sidebar.) The 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Steven Millhauser for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Crown), and Richard Kluger won the general nonfiction prize with Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War (Alfred A. Knopf). The National Book Award for fiction went to Charles Frazier for Cold Mountain (Atlantic Monthly Press), and the award for nonfiction went to Joseph Ellis for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Alfred A. Knopf). Fiction best-sellers for 1996, as reported by Publishers Weekly, were The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (2,775,000 copies), Executive Orders by Tom Clancy (2,371,602), and Desperation by Stephen King (1,542,077). Nonfiction best-sellers were Make the Connection by Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene (2,302,697), Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray (1,485,089), and The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams (1,319,507). Total book sales in the U.S. increased 4% in 1996 to more than $20 billion. See also Literature. This article updates publishing.Television
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Posted on January 13, 2015STORMLORD + DARKEND + BLACK THERAPY + DJSET KRYPTA NIGHT @ Traffic Club (ROMA)
Posted on January 4, 2015LAST DAYS
As holidays draw near, it would be wise to choose your gift from our store, as for two weeks there will be a 20% DISCOUNT on EVERY ITEM. Glance at what you like best at www.darkend.it/shop/ and then contact us directly to take advantage of the discount.
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Darkend announcement
Posted on January 4, 2015We are proud to announce that SATURIOUS, former Nokturnal Mortum composer and multi-instrumentalist, will be part of DARKEND for the recordings of our "Forgotten Ages Of Victories", directing all the orchestral parts. We are truly engraving a fragment of the old, legendary times.
"His face covered with wrinkles,
Like waterless earth,
Shined with life as in his youth.
And his tale drifted through the time
To distant faraways of those days"
Posted on December 14, 2014Just before entering the studios for the new album, Darkend have been chosen to be part of the official Nokturnal Mortum tribute album. So… let's do this first, in honour to these legendary lunar poets from Ukraine.
Today the recording sessions have started with Valentz on drums, then later on the week will be my turn, then the turn of Ashes, Nothingness, Specter and… a very SPECIAL GUEST. Stay tuned for more infos & updates.
Hail Nokturnal Mortum, hail Ukraine!
Next Ritual: DARKEND live @ VAMPYRIA GOTHIC CAFE'
Posted on October 1, 2014L'unica vera celebrazione dell'antica ricorrenza del Samhain: i DARKEND tornano a grande richiesta officiando il loro particolare e unico rituale, presentando alcune anteprime dal nuovo, imminente album.
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Posted on July 18, 201415/08 – Darkend @ MOSCOW Black Metal Convention
16/08 – Darkend @ BLACKENED Life Festival – TULA (RUS)
co headlining both events with SUSPERIA featuring ex-DIMMU BORGIR members
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Next Ritual
Posted on April 8, 2014Saturday 12/04/2014 – Circolo dei Malfattori (Poggio Berni – RN)
Darkend + Morbid Pest
New festival confirmed
Posted on December 25, 2013Followers of the Cult, 2014 brings a new festival confirmation: DARKEND will spread their Ritual over France at VORMELA FEST #2 alongside Bethlehem, Azarath and several more acts!
The current bill is the following:
+ 4 bands to be announced soon.
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New live show confirmed
Posted on December 1, 2013Darkend to play at Blackened Life Festival / Russia !


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Unlike his supporters who paint the president as powerless in the face of rising gas prices, President Obama says in an interview with AAA that there are things he can do about $4-a-gallon gas.
And it's not just drilling for more oil, he says.
The president sat down with representatives of the 53 million-member auto club yesterday after a speech in Oklahoma. Asked about gas prices, he touted his administration's efforts to boost domestic oil and gas production but said the nation needs to seek alternative fuels and greater fuel efficiency as well. He calls it an "all-of-the-above strategy."


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As part of our coverage of the 2012 UEFA European Championships, NESN.com will showcase fans from participating countries.
Denmark was handed arguably the toughest draw at Euro 2012, joining Portugal, Holland, and Germany in Group B. The Danes were unable to advance to the knockout stages, but their effort and performances earned them respect even in defeat.
With each nation occupying a spot in the top ten of FIFA's global rankings, Group B was quickly dubbed the "Group of Death" — guaranteeing an early exit for two of the tournament's heavyweights.
Undaunted, Denmark got off to a strong start. Michael Krohn-Delhi's early strike gave the Danes a surprise 1-0 victory over Holland in its opening game and inspired many Danes to dream of moving on to the knockout stages.
Denmark's second game was a glass-case of emotion. Portugal jumped out to a 2-0 lead, only to see Nicklas Bendtner score twice, with the equalizer coming in the 80th minute. A point would have put the Danes within inches of advancing but, in a cruel twist of fate, Portugal's Silvestre Varela came off the bench to score a late winner.
The loss to Portugal put Denmark in a precarious qualifying position to begin with, but a loss to Germany in its final game officially sent the Danes home. Krohn-Delhi added another to his tournament tally, but it wasn't enough to overcome German strikes by Lukas Podoloski and Lars Bender.
Although a group stage exit is always a disappointment, the Danes' committed performances and beautiful fans were enough for us to salute them on their way out the door. You can also enjoy pictures of other countries' fans in our round-up of Euro 2012 fan photo galleries.
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(Peeking back into the blogosphere to say hi. I miss you all very much, and hope to be back next year. :) *hugs*)
You were one of the first people I met on the blogosphere, and then again in person at conferences.
I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your generous spirit. You always had time for my questions and always made me feel welcome. From what I've observed, it hasn't just been me. You have arms wide enough for everyone--a rare, but much needed gift.
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Title: | NIR: a key component of the Premium Grains for Livestock Project |
Authors: | Flinn, P. C |
Keywords: | NIR Near Infrared grain ruminants monogastrics drought frost digestibility DMD digestible energy DE calibration pepsin-cellulase protein fat ADF NDF starch nutrition |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Citation: | Grains Industries Centre for NIR, 6th Annual Meeting of Participants, Canberra, (2001), p. 32 |
Description: | A review of how NIR is currently (2001) being used in the Premium Grains for Livestock Project to assess the nutritional value of grains for different livestock. |
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